dewberry

[doo-ber-ee, -buh-ree, dyoo-]

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noun

plural

dewberries

(in North America) the fruit of any of several trailing blackberries of the genus Rubus.
(in England) the fruit of a bramble, Rubus caesius.
a plant bearing either fruit.

dewberry

/ -brɪ, ˈdjuːbərɪ /

noun

any trailing bramble, such as Rubus hispidus of North America and R. caesius of Europe and NW Asia, having blue-black fruits
the fruit of any such plant

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dewberry¹

First recorded in 1570–80; dew + berry

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Example Sentences

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After half a century, the prison was abandoned and the land — apart from a police shooting range — was reclaimed by pines and privet, dewberry and muscadine vines.

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Her father, a steelworker who never met a vegetable he didn’t want to grow, saw early on that she had a knack for finding the last ripe dewberry on a bush.

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“Here, I have everything. In the yard around the cabin there are dewberries and wild buckwheat.”

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Delineate between the thimbleberry and the European dewberry.

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Captain Flume gasped and dissolved right back into the patch of dewberry bushes, and Major Major never set eyes on him again.

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dewater dew cell

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